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Garbi also Garvi was a silk-cotton blend fabric made with cotton in the warp and silk in the weft. It was a handloom textile material from the nineteenth century Sindh[1][2] and Punjab.[3] Garbi had a strong and a rough texture. It was made of thirty yards in length and nine inches in width, like the other piece goods from India and Pakistan.[4] Women in Sindh wore Garbi-made folk dresses.[5]

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  1. Watt, George (1904). Indian Art at Delhi, 1903: Being the Official Catalogue of the Delhi Exhibition, 1902-1903. J. Murray. p. 363.
  2. Duarte, Adrian (1982). The Crafts and Textiles of Sind and Baluchistan. Institute of Sindhology, University of Sind.
  3. Latifi, A. (1911). The industrial Punjab: : a survey of facts, conditions and possibilities. Longmans, Green, London. p. 39.
  4. The Gazetteer of West Pakistan: The Former Province of Sind Including Khairpur State. Gazetteer Cell, Board of Revenue. 1968. p. 288.
  5. Soomro, Faiz Mohammad (1977). Cultural History of Sind. National Book Foundation. pp. 77, 90.

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